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Romanian vs Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
6  
9

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden  
Moldova, Romania  

Second Language
Estonia  
Kazakhstan, Russia  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li  

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
  • The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  

Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.  

Derived From
Not Available  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Romanian.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
31  
13

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
7  
4

How Many Consonants
13  
3
20  
10

Scripts
Latin  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Moi  
alo  

Thank You
Kiitos  
multumesc  

How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?  
ce mai faci?  

Good Night
hyvää yötä  
noapte Buna  

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa  
buna Seara  

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää  
buna Ziua  

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta  
bună Dimineața  

Please
haluta  
Vă Rog  

Sorry
Anteeksi  
scuze  

Bye
Heippa  
La revedere  

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua  
Te iubesc  

Excuse Me
Anteeksi  
Scuza-Ma  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish  
Aromanian  

Where They Speak
Finland  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
250,000.00  
38

Dialect 2
Rauma  
Megleno-Romanian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
5,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Meänkieli  
Istro-Romanian  

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden  
Croatia  

How Many People Speak
60,000.00  
31
1,400.00  
37

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
10  
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
5.40 million  
99+
28.00 million  
38

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.37 %  
35

Native Speakers
5.40 million  
99+
24.00 million  
33

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million  
39
4.00 million  
30

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli  
Română  

Alternative Names
Suomi  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian  

French Name
finnois  
roumain; moldave  

German Name
Finnisch  
Rumänisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]  
[roˈmɨnə]  

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns  
Romanians  

History

Origin
1543  
1521  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Not Available  

Branch
Finnic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language  
Proto-Romanian  

Standard Forms
standard Finnish  
Romanian  

Language Position
Not Available  
36  
28

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish  
Romanian Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
fi  
ro  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin  
ron  

ISO 639 2/B
fin  
rum  

ISO 639 3
fin  
ron  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
finn1318  
roma1327  

Linguasphere
No data available  
51-AAD-c  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
Synthetic  

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Finnish and Romanian Language History

Comparison of Finnish vs Romanian language history gives us differences between origin of Finnish and Romanian language. History of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543 whereas history of Romanian language states that this language originated in 1521. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Finnish and Romanian Language History.

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Finnish and Romanian Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Finnish and Romanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Finnish and Romanian language. Finnish word for "Hello" is Moi or Romanian word for "Thank You" is multumesc. Find more of such common Finnish Greetings and Romanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Finnish vs Romanian Difficulty

The Finnish vs Romanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Finnish Alphabets and Romanian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Finnish and Romanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Finnish and Romanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Finnish is 44 weeks while to learn Romanian time required is 24 weeks.

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